Zombie worlds: five spooky planets orbiting dead stars
A handful of zombie planets have been spotted – thought to have been born after the death of their host stars.
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Telescopes on the ground may be cheaper, but Hubble shows why they are not enough
Ground-based telescopes are getting bigger and better while still being cheaper than space telescopes. But the vital scientific contributions made by Hubble demonstrates why we need both.
Explainer: what is interplanetary dust and can it spread the ingredients of life?
Cosmic dust may have jump-started life on Earth as well as on distant planets.
Gravitational waves found again: here’s how they could whisper the universe’s secrets
State of the art detectors have found another signal from a pair of collapsing black holes – the consequences could be momentous.
Is our Milky Way galaxy a zombie, already dead and we don’t know it?
Extragalactic astrophysicists want to know how and why galaxies stop forming stars, change their shape and fade away. With help from citizen scientists, they’re figuring it out.
Exoplanet discovery blurs the line between large planets and small stars
The discovery of a huge planet orbiting a small star challenges our understanding of planet formation.
A Galah to help capture millions of rainbows to map the history of the Milky Way
Understanding how the billions of stars in our galaxy formed and evolved is the subject of a huge galactic archaeology project.
Note to Harvey Goldsmith: it’s your music that’s dead, not festivals
The rock promoter thinks festivals are on the way out. But he couldn’t be further from the truth.
Why it’s location, location, location, even when it comes to galaxy evolution
Studying the extreme environment of the Virgo Cluster — which comprises thousands of galaxies — helps us learn what factors can affect and start or stop star formation.
Marina Abramović retrospective celebrates the grand dame of performance art – but questions the genre’s future
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
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